"I know that sounds really extreme, but if you just look at the history, you will find Harry Anslinger [first U.S. commissioner of the Bureau of Narcotics] going on about satanic swing and how reefer will make black people think they're as good as white people - which to him, obviously, was a very horrible outcome. This is the basis of our drug laws."

-- Maia Szalavitz

#Thinking Quotes #Law Quotes #White Quotes

“It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.”
“Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.”
“It doesn't matter where you make movies or what the size of the movie you make is. It's a very hard job - especially director.”
“Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.”
“Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.”
“The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and whatever decision is taken will harm somebody.”

Source : James Joll (1960). “Intellectuals in politics: three biographical essays”
“Shigure: "What's in the camera? Huh? Huh? What is it?" Hatori: "Quiet, you hack.”
“I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.”

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